Are you in favour of ads inside RSS feeds?

Are you going to unsubscribe from those feeds that will start using them?

Here at Lockergnome, ads inside feeds are not something new, as Chris Pirillo has long touted the critical benefits that independent publishers like him may derive from this.

But what about the readers?

Are they going to adjust anyhow since many times there will not be a quality alternative, or will they blatantly delete your RSS feed from their RSS news aggregator?

It’s hard to say, though if we look back at what has happened to other new communication technologies as they have been introduced, experimented with and finally adopted, we can easily anticipate where ads and RSS are headed.

I myself think that there should be an “intelligent” approach to integrate ads in RSS, given the fact, that RSS feeds were really meant to keep us informed without spamming us with unrequested ads.

If we clutter them with intrusive ads, interruptive messages and non-directly relevant items, what kind of innovative communication are we creating?

Here my thoughts on it.